Options for Virtual Machine deployment:
- --vm Set up a Virtual Machine, instead of plainly installing
- to a partition or directory, to be combined with --target,
- like: --vm --target /dev/mapper/your-vm-disk
- --vmfile Like --vm, but install into a file (raw format).
+ --vm Set up a Virtual Machine on an existing block device
+ instead of plainly installing to a partition or
+ directory. Needs to be combined with --target.
+ Example: --vm --target /dev/mapper/your-vm-disk
+ --vmfile Like --vm, but install into a regular file (created by
+ 'qemu-img create -f raw ...') instead.
Example: --vmfile --target /mnt/sda1/qemu.img
--vmsize <size> Use specified size for size of VM file (default: 2G).
Syntax as supported by qemu-img, like: --vmsize 3G
*--vmfile*::
- Set up a Virtual Machine instead of installing to a partition or directory.
- This allows deployment of a Virtual Machine. The options needs to be
- combined with the --target option.
+ Set up a Virtual Machine using a regular file instead of installing to a
+ partition/block device or directory. This allows deployment of a Virtual
+ Machine. The options needs to be combined with the --target option
+ ('qemu-img create -f raw ...' is executed on the specified target).
Usage example: --vmfile --target /mnt/sda1/qemu.img
*--vmsize* _size_::